[p2p-hackers] Re: scalability

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:09:22PM -0500, Adam Fisk wrote:
> On the Gnutella 0.6/0.7 issue, that's really just the version of the 
> specification for connection headers -- a frequent source of confusion.  
> Gnutella has rightfully evolved into a family of protocols that 
> themselves have version numbers -- everything from superpeers to dynamic 
> querying to bloom filter exchange and mesh downloading.  All of these 
> evolve largely independently from one another, giving the protocol 
> family much more flexibility and agility.

I suggest adding text similar to this to the GDF Wiki main page, and
changing "RFC-Gnutella 0.6" to "Gnutella Protocol Family" or the like.

(Which apparently cannot be edited by normal wiki users)

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon